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Recommendation for Not Using AS_SET and AS_CONFED_SET in BGP
RFC 6472 also known as BCP 172

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Document history

Date By Action
2026-05-20
(System) Changed metadata: changed keywords to '['BGPv4', 'Operator', 'RPKI', 'Aggregation', 'Route Origin']' from '[]'
2026-05-20
(System) Metadata update from RFC Editor
2026-05-20
(System) Changed author "K. Sriram": changed name from "Kotikalapudi Sriram" to "K. Sriram", cleared country (was "US"), changed order from "0" to "2"
2026-05-20
(System) Changed author "W. Kumari": changed name from "Warren Kumari" to "W. Kumari", cleared country (was "US")
2026-05-20
(System) Metadata update from RFC Editor
2023-12-12
(System) Imported membership of rfc6472 in bcp172 via sync to the rfc-index
2023-12-12
(System) No history of BCP172 is currently available in the datatracker before this point
2015-10-14
(System) Notify list changed from idr-chairs@ietf.org, draft-ietf-idr-deprecate-as-sets@ietf.org to (None)
2011-12-08
Cindy Morgan State changed to RFC Published from RFC Ed Queue.
2011-12-08
Cindy Morgan [Note]: changed to 'BCP 172; RFC 6472'
2011-12-08
(System) RFC published